Sketches in thyme #199

I've starting going through my troop photos from 2013 and got this layout of our service unit end of  year celebration.  One of my girls bridged to adults.  Super exciting. I used the following sketch from Sketches in thyme #199

 

 

 

 

 

I split the top photo to include my Junior getting recognized for earning her bronze award and then Mikaela bridging to adult.  The bottom picture has the Service unit team and I receiving awards

 

 

 

This cute little camera is from my May kit.  Little bit of chalk ink around the edges and on the heart.

I also used the sequins from the kit as well, something new for me.  Not sure it was the right choice but it is helping me stay on track with using most of what I receive before the next kit comes in

 

 

 TSR May Kit Jillibean soup Hearty Hello:
aged aloha  (arrows)  tab at top and back side (yellow gingham)
backside Jar of Jumbo (floral)
Camera die cut and sequins
 

 

 

 

 

 

How many photos can you fit

This weeks challenge at lasting Memories is how many photos can you fit or use on one page. 

I did pretty good with this one with 8 photos on the page. 

 You have to look closely between the legs of the ninja for the 8th photo.

 

The Ninja is a template that we used to create these super cute Ninja dolls. 

 of course I had to add some washi tape for the belt and head band on the paper version.

I also used part of the leaders packet for the title and description of what we did on Friday night.  This is the title page with all the random camp photos that go along with my 2 page layout from the use only four photos challenge at Lasting memories

 

Thanks for taking a peak and I can wait to see what you create

 

Stash busting with camp photos and a sketch

I found this over at Sketch and scrap for their flashback Friday

I switched the orientation of my photos and left them a bit longer then the sketch

as I wanted the full length of the Arrows.

 

I'm not sure about putting a title on it, but might still do that

 

Another layout

Freaky Fast Friday and using up my April kit

I'm a new  to the flavor of the month kit subscriber over at the scrap room and I have a goal of using paper from every kit before I get the next months shipment.  Now I have just enough to play along next month with the Throwback challenge as paper/ kits have to be 2 month old or older.

This is the bits and pieces I have left.  Not bad considering I've done 6 12x12 layouts

LM vintage photos

LM Only 4 photos

TSR April Kit- doodlebug

LM Current Era music challenge

 

and 2 8.5x11 pages using the May Freaky Fast Formula

 

 

Same layout design both made with Ella Studios little moments

 



vintage photos at Lasting memories

 

This week continues the all about Photos theme at lasting memoires with Vintage photos.  Dig out those Sepia or Black and white photos.  It can be old or current.

We are going for the "LOOK" of vintage.
 

 For my layout this week I used a school photo of my dad and combined it with two fun NSD challenge going over at the scrap room and scrap our stash
 

 

For the scrap room I chose sketch #4 and 

 almost used up all but a few scraps of my April FOTM Bo Bunny believe .
 

For scrap our stash challenge I went with the highlighted items from the

PRE-SELECTED stash item.

PRE-SELECTED STASH LIST:

                                                    S ~ Sequins, Staples, or Stickers

                                                    T ~ Tags, Tape, or Transparency

                                                    A ~ American Crafts, Ampersand(&),or Arrow

                                                    S ~ Stencil, Stick Pins, or Striped Print

                                                    H ~ Hashtag (#), Heart(s) or Hemp (cord)

 

I have my chipboard sticker "love" mounted on arrow that I covered with the heart and cloud tape

all sitting on top of a hand cut heart

 

I threw in one more piece of tape for good measure and another chipboard sticker to hide the seam on the polka dot banner all layered over my stripped patterned paper.

 

I hope that you've enjoyed my share and that you'll play along with us at Lasting memories

 



 

 

 

Lasting Memories use only 4 photos

I'm joining this weeks challenge a little late as last week was crazy busy with my mom in town for my son's birthday and 1st communion.  So with out further delay I give you the current challenge at lasting memories Use  only 4 photos on your layout.

 

I actually have a 2 page spread to share.  Both pages have 4 photos each

I scraplifted  the layout from an ideas forum at TSR

 

For the left side of the layout I altered the idea and went with 4 photos instead of 3

 

Super excited to have used my 3rd page kit (Simple Stories- Carpe Diem) from the scrap room.  My goal is to use paper and embellishments from all four kits before this months kit arrives. So far so good. 

 



 

I'm not sure if I'm going to add any journaling as the camp was from 2013 and the girls have changed so much that some of them I'm not sure I recognize and then there are the ones that are no longer with the troop.  So far behind on the troop album that I'm just going to stick the photos down and move on

 

The current Era at lasting memories

We are up to the current era this week in our musical montage month.

 



So far we have got down and boogied  thru the 70's, rocked in the 80's and taken a trip down Broadway.  For the current challenge you can create a layout using inspiration from current music topping the charts or go with the bright and bold hair colors artist are sporting or maybe some hand drawn doodles that give the tattooed vibe.  It's up to you.  My take on the challenge and ispiration for the layout is Katy Perry's- Roar 





 

I'm into my second set of 4 kits that I got this month from the scrap room.  Totally digging the colors from Bo Bunny Believe.  The pinks and oranges are prefect for this layout.  I also went with the very popular and trendy triangle.  I modified this sketch from Creative scrapper

 

My title of course is "roar"  and I printed the chorus lyrics.

 

I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter

Dancing through the fire

‘Cause I am a champion

And you’re gonna hear me roar

 

The Junction City Tiger Cheer Clinic went pink this year in support of our middle school language arts teacher going through breast cancer treatment.  My Journaling reflects that along with pulling in key words from the lyrics such as fighter and champion

 

 

Hope you like my inspiration and will join us at Lasting Memories for our last musical challenge of the month

TSR doodlebug April kit

So I finely broke down and subscribed to a kit club.  I've been eyeing The Scrap Room flavor of the month club minus the coffee of course.  Not much of a coffee drinker but love the paper pairing for the kit so here I go with a new creation using Doodlebug Anchors away.

 

 

 I created this layout using the recipe cards for the month of April.  The layout sketch design was meant for a different paper pairing but I like how it turned out

 

The sketch called for 4 4x4 photos but I really wanted the full length of the survival suit. 

That would be my goofy daughter all dressed up and ready for a dip in the pacific ocean

I tried to use as many of the themed stickers as possible as I don't have much paper left and not sure when I'll need more of the nautical theme. Sadly I still have a 1/4 page of stickers left

 

I also wanted to make sure I used the buttons from the kit as well so I grouped them with some stickers.  The wood grain dock is actually the bottom of the seagull sticker.  I cut him of the pier post so that he'd fit better on the journal card

 

 

and here he is grouped with some more stickers and the journal card

 

 

Broadway challenge at lasting memories

 

 The Musical Montage continues this month at Lasting Memories with a Broadway challenge.

You are free to create anything  to do with Broadway or this photo for inspiration

 

 Haven fun creating.  I hope to join you on this one but need to print my daughters New York pictures.  Her Girl Scout troop spent a week in New York last summer and they went to see Aladdin.  Hoping I can find something that will work as I didn't go on the trip and still haven't opened the photo file that was shared.

 



Rocking the 80's at lasting memories

April's challenges theme is "Musical Montage" with all layouts  based on a different era for each week. We think you'll love the challenges this month if you missed the Disco Era you can find it here.

 

Currently on the play list is the greatest hits from the 80's.  

 

 How you interpret the challenge is up to you.  Feel free to rock out in the 80's with me. When I googled images of 80's music I found a ton of the MTV flag being planted by Neil Armstrong, so that and the neon colors were my 80's influence for this layout.

 

I also used the freaky fast Friday formula from the Scrap room to speed along the layout process.  I've been busy cranking out decorations for my son's Blue and gold banquet and wasn't sure if I'd get my layout done in time for the big reveal this week.  Thankfully I had a few spare minutes in between scout functions today.  Started the day dropping off my youngest daughter to her Junior leader for a trip to the Oregon coast to earn her animal habitats badge, then off to Girl Scouts Annual meeting where I served as a delegate and received a national adult award.

After cutting the neon papers and arranging them to my liking I realized that they looked really flat, so out came the washi tape.  I covered all of the pieces with color coordinating tape.  Love the funky pattern that I created on the large 7x7 green square.

 

here's a close up of my son posing in the cardboard cut out that inspired the whole 80's vibe for the layout.  Can't you just see him skipping across the moons surface and planting that MTV flag smack dab into moon rock. I tried to give the base page a lunar look with a bit of white paint flicked from tooth brush bristles. 

 

I did substitute the 4 circles with 5 starburst as it fit the overall theme better then a bunch of circles.

Finished the layout off with a bit of journaling about the pack's trip to the science factory

 

 

Thanks for stopping by for a look and I hope you join us for this week's challenge

 

 

 

Blue and Gold creations

This is how I've been spending all of my crafty time

 

 Den table markers.  In an effort to have all the Den's sit together I made these.

The overall theme for the banquet was camping and wilderness so I stuffed canning jars with crepe paper glass stones and tissue paper to mimic a campfire 

I made wolf place makers too, but just don't have a photo of them.

14 badges double sided

signage for the auctions and no we didn't bid on the kids it was items for kids to bid on.  I cranked these out late at night so I wasn't really think about how they read at the time, until the jokes started pouring in after the 11:30 progress photo posted on Facebook.

 

Last but not least is this beauty of a sign. 

I wanted to make it look like a sign post in camp but just ran out of time.

Maybe if I didn't have so much scouting going on at once.

3 scout events in one day

 

 

April's Challenges at Lasting Memories

Aprils challenges theme is "Musical Montage" with all layouts  based on a different era for each week. We think you'll love the challenges this month and the first one is the ...Disco Era. Next up on the play list will be the greatest hits from the 80's, Broadway musicals and finishing out the set will be the current era.  How you interpret the challenge is up to you.  Feel free to get your grove on this week by using a song title, 70's color scheme or flashy disco balls. What ever moves you, man.

 

 

I'll be joining the challenges next week with my take on the 80's

Get air

I had the chance to squeeze in a quick layout this morning.

  I used sketches in thyme #190 for this one of Cub scout Pack 52 at Get Air 

 

I used the company logo from the get Air website to create the title for the layout.

I also used more then the 2 photos, but thought that the photo area on the sketch was rather large so it could easily fit photos stacked

 

The other modification I made was to switch out tags for triangles and went with one less.  I feel like the triangle mimics the arrow from the title and it doubles as a journal space

 

 

The last little bit I'm going to share is the embellishments at the top of the page.  I wanted some flourishes that are more masculine as I'm playing along with shopping our stash

 with items from my big craft score back on March5, 2013.  And the items we only new to me back then so who knows how long these little gems and plastic shapes have been sitting.

I know the challenge is supposed to be something for the big boys or bigger boy, but I really tried to steer clear of the juvenile touches on this layout of the cubs

Robot

I'm back with another scout layout.  I'm almost done with 2015 just have the Pack Christmas Party to do and I'll be ready to roll out 2016 Scout pictures.  Still trying to get up to date so as events happen I can just print and create.  I know I'm dreaming.  Besides my husband needs to get on the ball too and do the journaling.  I can only do so much. 

 

I used sketches in thyme #189 as my inspiration

 

and here's my take:

 

I stuck close to the general layout of the sketch except for bunching the photos a bit.  I wanted them to mostly fall on the Green text paper (K and Company scout paper)  I like the words but they were a bit too outdoorsy for the layout.  How ever the color worked really well with the ribbons that I made the stripes with.

 

I journaled directly on the background paper as

 I didn't want to cover it up completely with a journal box.

I also cut back on the number of embellishments in the layout to just the one big one near the photo cluster and the gear chain at the bottom. 

Originally I thought I'd journal on the chain but wasn't sure it would fit or be easy to follow around the gears.  Instead I added my won hand draw highlights for more texture

I cut the title with Boys will be Boys circuit font on my new Cricut explore.  Had a tough time figuring out the dial setting for the sparkly blue paper.  Some of the edges didn't come out super crisp but I'm learning


Thanks for stopping by.  Hope to have another layout up soon
 

And the award goes to

In the movie industry you'd call this a spoiler alert so here goes my spoiler.

I've been asked to come back to the Lasting memories team after a long absence.

I think after 2 yrs of settling into the new house it's about time

 to get back at it...so without further ado

 

The award goes to:

 

My son Eric- 1st place wolf class Derby car 

 

 

and I'm sure you remember this layout design from Sketches in Thyme #187

 

 

Hope you can join us at http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/for the final Oscar themed challenge